Home » Who We Are

Strategic Partners

The various “Strategic Partners” of The Art Fund Association (“Art FA”) are select art market service providers who strongly support Art FA’s commitment to fostering the growth of the art fund industry. Our Strategic Partners are actively involved in Art FA’s endeavors at the global, regional and industry levels, contributing their expertise and resources in order to help formulate and advance Art FA’s initiatives. Specifically, Art FA’s Strategic Partners are actively involved in the development of key policy positions affecting the art fund industry, including the development of industry wide sound business practices, and Art FA actively seeks the vision, opinion and consensus views of its Strategic Partners in structuring its goals and agenda. For additional information on becoming a Strategic Partner of Art FA, please e-mail us at sponsorship@artfundassociation.com.

Art FA is grateful for the alliances it has with its various Strategic Partners that are listed below. All information regarding such Strategic Partners was provided to Art FA by the respective partner organization and the accuracy thereof is not guaranteed by Art FA or its officers, directors, employees or agents. Please be aware that clicking on any of our partners’ logo links will take you to a website outside of the artfundassociation.com domain.

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP has earned a reputation as one of the pre-eminent law firms representing alternative investment funds. Under the leadership of Michael Tannenbaum, the firm’s Financial Services Department represents hundreds of hedge funds and other private investment funds, providing a full range of legal services required by such clients, including fund formation and governance, regulatory, M&A, corporate and commercial planning, taxation, litigation and dispute resolution, employment and intellectual property.

Through its respected Art Law Department chaired by Enrique Liberman, Tannenbaum Helpern has been at the forefront of the development of the art fund industry, and welcomes the opportunity to continue to counsel participants in the industry on sound business practices for art investment funds and their managers, investors and service providers.

For more information, please visit www.thshlaw.com.

Established in 2004, Skate's Art Market Research provides high net worth individuals and institutional investors around the world with reliable and unbiased research supporting art investment decisions. Unlike art dealers and auction houses, we do not derive income from selling or buying art and are focused entirely on enabling our customers to make well-informed art investment decisions using the research produced by our specialists. Our success is directly linked to the practical use of information we provide to art buyers and sellers. Our aim is to excel in the field, becoming over time as central a resource to the process of art investment as credit rating agencies are to the process of extending credit. Skate's mission is to develop and commercialize information tools and related services that will help shift the balance of power in the art investment world from intermediaries to art collectors, art investors and artists themselves. Skate’s currently provides a number of art market research products and art finance services, including art valuation and auction sale price guarantees, art securitization services, individual artwork background reports, Skate’s Top 5000 database of the world’s 5,000 most valuable artworks, art industry mergers & acquisitions advisory and finance services, Skate’s Art Stock Index and art investment training and educational course offerings.

For more information, please visit www.skatepress.com.

Cottelston Advisors is a full service art advisory and lifestyle marketing company, which provides access and guidance. For corporate clients, Cottelston ensures proper brand positioning in the visual arts. For collectors, Cottelston assures that quality work is chosen, which will captivate and inspire. Cottelston's approach to the art world is born out of a passion for the fine arts and a deep knowledge of the business world. This rare convergence of understanding art and business acumen is at the core of our company.

For further information, please visit www.cottelston.com.

Investment Property Exchange Services, Inc. (IPX1031®) is among the nation’s largest providers of Qualified Intermediary and tax-deferred exchange services, with offices spread across the country. We have extensive experience in all types of exchanges involving artwork, collectables, real estate, aircraft, and other business use or investment assets. IPX1031® is a subsidiary of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF) the publicly traded Fortune 500 parent of the largest title insurance companies in the country, including Chicago Title, Ticor Title, Fidelity National Title, Lawyers Title and Alamo Title. In addition to the financial strength of our corporate parent, our clients receive unparalleled security through a third party corporate performance guarantee, a $100 million fidelity bond and $30 million in errors and omissions insurance.

For more information, please visit www.ipx1031.com.